Each
year since 1973, NADCA has sponsored its International Die Casting
Design Competition to showcase outstanding die cast designs while
acknowledging the continuous contribution die casters provide to the
manufacturing industry.
Eight
winners were chosen this year and were on display at the 113th
Metalcasting Congress in Las Vegas, NV, in April. The top eight
submissions and two honorable mention winners represent a range of
products touting innovative designs and a vast array of applications.
“For
this year’s competition, there was no sign of slow down in the area of
innovation and pushing the limits of what the die casting process is
capable of achieving. Many of the winning die castings utilized
revolutionary part and die designs,” said NADCA design engineer Dan
Meyer. “The die designs allowed production of die castings that
greatly increased yields on many fronts. Methods such as automatic
de-gating, direct injection, multiple-cavity dies for complex high
tolerance parts, as well as new gating and die designs requiring
minimal or no machining of the final die casting, were some of the
areas die casters showed their applied creativity.”
Submitted castings were reviewed by a panel of independent judges from
which winners are selected. Categories were grouped by material and
include aluminum, zinc and magnesium. For each category, a die casting
is evaluated based on ingenuity of casting and product design, overall
quality, cost savings and contribution to expanding the market for die
casting.
NADCA
wishes to thank all the die casters who submitted their entries in the
2009 competition, while congratulating the winners, who are listed
HERE.
For more
information on the 2009 International Die Casting Design Competition,
visit
www.diecastingdesign.org.